Tenium vs StatusCake

A fair look at StatusCake

StatusCake is a UK company with a long-running free plan, a paid ladder that is easy to read, and a few features Tenium does not try to copy: page-speed tests and a server agent for CPU and memory. The interface shows its age, but it does what it says, and many sites have years of history there.

This comparison is the one where Tenium does not win on raw price at the like-for-like tier, and the page would be dishonest if it pretended otherwise.

The arithmetic, tier by tier

StatusCake Superior is $24.49 for 100 tests at one-minute checks. Tenium Starter covers the same count at the same interval for $7 (100 monitors, 1 min checks, 2 seats), well below Superior. A team of three needs Pro at $29, which is higher. For 30-second checks the comparison flips: StatusCake Business is $79.99 for 300 tests, against Pro for 300 monitors at 30 s. Dollar prices are compared as published. Euro prices are shown as published and converted at about EUR 1 = USD 1.08 for the percentages.

• 20 monitors, 3 people: Tenium Pro at $29. For StatusCake: Superior, $24.49. Tenium comes out about 18% more expensive.
• 100 monitors, 3 people: Tenium Pro at $29. For StatusCake: Superior, $24.49. Tenium comes out about 18% more expensive.
• 400 monitors, 3 people: Tenium Agency at $59. For StatusCake: no public price we can verify for this size, so ask StatusCake for a quote.

Reading those lines

At 20 monitors the Tenium figure is Pro only because a team of three exceeds the 2 seats on Starter. A team of two would pay $7 instead, and that would be the cheaper option, with room for 100 monitors. If StatusCake's seat limits suit your team, their entry price is hard to beat for small counts.

At 400 monitors the lines are not directly comparable: StatusCake publishes up to 300 tests on Business, and what happens beyond that is a conversation with them. Ask for the quote in writing, and ask what happens to your price when you add a fourth person, because seat limits are where small plans tend to surprise you.

What you gain by moving

The reasons to move are not about the cheapest line. Pro includes white-label status pages, custom request headers, escalation and a branded monthly PDF; the StatusCake plans we compared reserve white-label for the Business tier. Agency adds client workspaces with viewer logins and automatic per-client reports on the 1st. Alerts are confirmed by all two regions before an incident opens.

What you lose by moving

Check this list against what you actually use:

• Page-speed monitoring. Tenium records response time and timing breakdowns for every check, but it does not run a Lighthouse-style audit.
• The server monitoring agent. Tenium watches services from outside; it does not report CPU, memory or disk from inside a machine.
• Any long-term history you want to keep. Export reports first.

Steps for the switch

A realistic plan for fifty tests takes under an hour of hands-on work.

• Export your uptime tests from StatusCake as CSV.
• Upload the file in Tenium via Import in the sidebar. Names, URLs and intervals are read where the file has them and contact groups are not imported; read the preview, because test types without a counterpart can fall back to plain HTTP.
• Rebuild contact groups as Tenium contacts and attach them to monitors in bulk using multi-select.
• Move your status page by creating a new one, attaching the monitors, and changing the CNAME on your own domain to the target Tenium shows. Allow a few minutes for the certificate.
• Leave StatusCake running for one billing cycle. Cancel once you have seen a real outage handled on the Tenium side.

Not a good moment to switch when

You rely on page-speed budgets, you use their server agent, or you are comfortable on the Superior tier and nobody needs white-label or client reports. In that situation the saving does not exist and the feature gain is theoretical, so keep what works.